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REEL SOUTH
I'm Still Here
Season 10
Episode 1002
Between 1947 and 1967, Birmingham, Alabama, witnessed over 50 bombings targeting Black-owned homes. This film follows three individuals who, as children, lived through the terror and stayed in the city. Together, they seek to turn Birmingham’s painful history into a symbol of hope, resilience, and civil rights progress.
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In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.

14:26
Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.

17:18
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.

30:26
A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.

24:04
Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.

27:09
An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.

27:32
Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.

56:15
An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.

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55:46
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.

56:04
One man standing in the way of a petrochemical plant expansion refuses to give up.